The Man with a Plan

I don’t know about you but when it comes to training, I like to understand the plan. I cannot stand it when I would go to Cross Country or track practice not really knowing what was about to happen. I did not need to know specifics but it would have been nice to know that today is a hard day or today is a long easy day. I understand that sometimes it is nice to kind of shock your body with a surprise workout but I am not in boot camp anymore and these surprise attacks really just aggravate me. Following a well documented training program allows me to get past that and be mentally prepared for the next workout. That is not enough though. You really need to understand the training program as a whole. Early on it is about building up a base and every 4 to 5 weeks dropping the effort for a recovery week before you start building again. Then it is about fine tuning and getting ready for competition before finally tapering down to the big competition. Understanding this allows me weather some of those ups and downs knowing that it is all a part of the process.